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Headword:
*swrei/a
Adler number: sigma,853
Translated headword: heaping-up
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] multitude.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] swreo/s, [meaning the same as] swro/s ["heap"].[2]
Greek Original:*swrei/a: plh=qos. kai\ *swreo/s, o( swro/s.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in
Hesychius (sigma3084), the
Synagoge (sigma444) and
Photius'
Lexicon (sigma928 Theodoridis).
[2] Similarly in
Etymologicum Magnum 742.21 and (according to Adler) the
Ambrosian Lexicon. Grammarians cite
swreo/s as the origin of
swro/s "by syncope," but the word is poorly attested outside lexicography. For
swro/s cf.
sigma 854.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 March 2014@01:11:27.
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